Events
- April 23 - C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham in a secret ceremony.
- June 16 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn in the London Borough of Camden.
- August 14 - Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley.
- Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.
- Aldous Huxley marries author Laura Archera.
- Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street), is first published.
- First book in the long-running 87th Precinct series, Cop Hater, is first published, written by Ed McBain
- Nineteen-year-old Hunter S. Thompson is arrested for robbery.
- Sixteen-year-old Michael Moorcock becomes editor of Tarzan Adventures.
- Jorge Luis Borges becomes a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires.
- Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.
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